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adempiere forum Profits with Principles “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Many years have passed since corporate social responsibility (CSR) made its entrance as a major issue for companies. Performance on social and environmental levels has also become important for organizations to consider. Since CSR’s inception, many initiatives have arisen. Businesses around the world have sought to take a
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adempiere forum to-order: One Big, Lean Machine Adds High Tech to Its Mix In the first part of this series (please see Quote-to-order: New Ingredients in the Recipe for Success ), the emerging quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere was discussed in terms of its history and current developments, as well as how software providers are rising to the challenge of meeting their customers' Q2O needs. The second part, Quote-to-order: Newcomer Causes a Stir in the Market began an in-depth analysis of how the vendor BigMachines has been
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adempiere forum as a Retail Market Force: More Fact Than Fiction It is well known that SAP AG , founded in 1972, is a market and technology leader in business management software, and since those early days retailers have been using the now legacy SAP R/1 and SAP R/2 financials solutions to support their financial processes. With the success of the client-server SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution in the early 1990s and the burgeoning expansion of the global ERP market, SAP embarked on tailoring its sol
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adempiere forum SSA GT Betting Infini(um)tely On Acquisitions? Part Four: Challenges and User Recommendations. Challenges An ERP vendor that many have long considered gone south' seems not only to be shyly coming back onto radar screens, but has rather noisily been re-creating a sort of an IBM eServer iSeries (formerly AS/400 ) platform-based ERP empire, which was also once considered vanishing like Atlantis. On October 28, SSA Global Technologies, Inc. ( SSA GT ), www.ssagt.com , a worldwide enterprise solutions and
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eConnections Expands Web With IPNeteConnections offers a sound proposition for users who have streamlined internal supply chains and are ready to begin life as a node in an inter-enterprise

adempiere forum Templates for Effective Implementations Part Two: The CMMS Industry and ERP The CMMS in Industry The CMMS industry is divided into various styles of system providers, all of which are defined within the book CMMS: A Timesaving Implementation Process . For the requirements of this position paper we will only be speaking about the two main types. Those are ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) style systems. Figure 1. This is Part Two of a three-part article that is
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adempiere forum Manufacturers Shifting Their Focus to Start-Ups Computer Manufacturers Shifting Their Focus to Start-Ups R. Krause - August 18, 2000 Event Summary In July Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the iForce Startup Community, an industry first marketplace designed to address dot-com customer requirements through cross-market collaboration. The community interacts online through the iForce Startup Community portal, where startups can find news, events, interactive forums and vendor information, and where
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adempiere forum Vendor Shootout for ERP Events Over the last few years I have repeatedly seen the Vendor Shootout TM for ERP event banner ad appearing on the Technology Evaluation Centers ( TEC ) Web site and being promoted in TEC’s newsletters. In addition, I would come across mentions of the event in other industry magazines, press releases (PRs), social media feeds, Web site banners, and so on. Needless to say, I was curious about an event (not to say dismayed by my lack of insight) that even carried
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adempiere forum Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2004 Executive Summary True multi-service, multi-vendor global networks are the future of the telecommunications industry. However, mazes of international standards and protocols can create barriers rather than solutions. For service providers and system suppliers alike, implementing standards for interoperability is far from simple. The MultiService Switching Forum (MSF) fills the void by developing implementation agreements that take standards from theory into
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adempiere forum Innovation, Innovation: Notes from DSCC 2010 (Day 1) The Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference (DSCC) 2010 kicked off on November 9th, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. It is the second time that Dassault Systèmes has hosted the customer conference collectively for most of the company’s brands at a single event, with a geographic focus on the Americas (the European Customer Forum [ECF] 2010 is the European equivalence taking place in two weeks). When I had a little time to reflect after the busy
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adempiere forum Software: All about People (Cloud) - Part 1 The 2011 Enterprise 2.0 conference’s expo floor in Boston in late June featured many of the “usual suspects,” such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Adobe, SuccessFactors, Jive Software, SocialText , OpenText , Yammer , and Cisco Systems , to name only a few well-established providers (in addition to the plethora of innovative startup companies that one could encounter there). There were also some notable absentees, such as SAP ( StreamWork ), salesforce.com
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adempiere forum MESsy Shop Floor State of Affairs - Part III Part II of this blog series expanded on some of TEC 's earlier articles about companies' need for better links between the plant floor and the enterprise offices. It also pointed out the difficulties in achieving this noble idea, and gave examples of some vendors with success in providing integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions. Another chronic problem is how to foster plant workers’ acceptance
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adempiere forum the Weakest Link in Your Supply Chain Recent uncertainty in the global economy is not only having a negative impact on international economies, but an equally deleterious effect on global supply chains. As with the international economies they serve, global supply chains are interwoven and inextricably linked to one another. For instance, if one link is severed in the supply chain it can cause a ripple effect which could collapse the entire chain. I’ll look at some of the concerns for potential s
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